Positive Holiday Quotes:

Sing hey! Sing hey! For Christmas Day; Twine mistletoe and holly. For a friendship glows In winter snows, And so let's all be jolly! At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year

- Thomas Tusser

source: Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1580)

topic: Cheer, Merry Christmas, Winter, Merry Christmas Cards, Merry Christmas Greeting Card

'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!

- Carolyn Wells

source: Carolyn Wells (2016). “Childhood Essentials Library - Carolyn Wells Edition: 29 Novels & 150+ Poems, Stories, Fables & Charades for Children (Illustrated): Patty Fairfield Series, Marjorie Maynard Collection, Two Little Women Trilogy, Mother Goose's Menagerie, The Jingle Book, A Phenomenal Fauna, The Seven Ages of Childhood, Children of Our Town¦”, p.4002, e-artnow

topic: Christmas, Blessed, Giving, Inspirational Holiday, Merry Christmas Inspirational

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends." ~ (1925- ), English political leader.

- Margaret Thatcher

topic: Family, Christmas, Xmas, Jesus And Christmas, Jesus Christmas

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!

- Carolyn Wells

topic: Christmas, Years, Giving, Merry, Merry Christmas Cards

For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.

- William Jewett Tucker

topic: Christmas, Cheer, Home, Family Holiday, Christmas Time

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

- Walter Scott

topic: Christmas, Cheer, Heart, Ale, Inspirational Holiday

To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world." ~ Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), American president. Presidential message (December 25, 1927).

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Jesus And Christmas, Jesus Christmas, Christmas Time, Meaningful Christmas, Christmas Eve

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Christmas, Heart, Men, Christmas Time, Carols

England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

- Walter Scott

topic: Christmas, Sports, Cheer, Ale, Inspirational Holiday

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.

- Irving Berlin

topic: Christmas, Dream, White, Glisten, Inspirational Holiday

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

topic: Christmas, Blessed, World, Humorous Christmas, Gifts Of The Spirit

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.

- Oren Arnold

topic: Tolerance, Enemy, Opponents, Jesus And Christmas, Jesus Christmas

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly." ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Christmas, World, Rooms, Humorous Christmas, Meaningful Christmas

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

- Dave Barry

topic: Christmas, Religious, Holiday, Humorous Christmas, Christmas Time

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

- William Thomas Ellis

topic: Christmas, Blessed, Heart, Gifts Of The Spirit, Family Holiday

Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts.

- Joan Winmill Brown

topic: Heart, Joy, Meaningful Christmas, Inspirational Holiday, Merry

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

- William Thomas Ellis

topic: Christmas, Heart, Air, Gifts Of The Spirit, Family Holiday

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.

- Johnny Carson

topic: Funny, Christmas, Sarcastic, Humorous Christmas, Christmas Time

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Christmas, Real, Mind, Jesus And Christmas, Jesus Christmas

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Love, Christmas, Heart, Humorous Christmas, Family Holiday

Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.

- Christina Rossetti

topic: Christmas, Stars, Angel, Jesus And Christmas, Jesus Christmas

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

topic: Christmas, Memories, Children, Christmas Time, Meaningful Christmas

I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Christmas, Sweet, Men, Jesus And Christmas, Jesus Christmas

Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.

- Pope John XXIII

topic: Christmas, Heart, Mankind, Family Holiday, Jesus And Christmas

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Inspirational, Family, Happy, Humorous Christmas, Gifts Of The Spirit

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.

- Eric Sevareid

topic: Christmas, Years, One Day, Humorous Christmas, Gifts Of The Spirit

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

- Peg Bracken

topic: Christmas, Time And Love, Ingredients, Family Holiday, Christmas Time

Oh! lovely voices of the sky Which hymned the Saviour's birth, Are ye not singing still on high, Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?

- Felicia Hemans

source: Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1836). “The Poetical Works of Mrs. Felicia Hemans: Complete in One Volume”, p.282

topic: Christmas, Sky, Voice, Lovely Voice, Christmas Card

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.

- Bess Streeter Aldrich

source: Bess Streeter Aldrich (1985). “Journey Into Christmas and Other Stories”, p.207, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Christmas, Song, Heart, Heart Filled, Jesus And Christmas

Be merry all, be merry all, With holly dress the festive hall; Prepare the song, the feast, the ball, To welcome merry Christmas.

- William Spencer

source: William Robert Spencer (1835). “Poems”, p.203

topic: Christmas, Song, Hollies, Positive Holiday, Festive

Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.

- Robert Wilson Lynd

topic: Christmas, Children, Philosophy, Merry Christmas Cards, Children Christmas